Adding An Ipsec Vpn Policy; Manual Key Exchange Ipsec Vpn For Remote Clients; Configuring The Vpn Tunnel; Adding Internal And External Addresses - D-Link DFL-500 User Manual

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Adding an IPSec VPN policy

Use the procedure
Adding an IPSec VPN policy
internal network through the VPN tunnel to the remote internal network.

Manual key exchange IPSec VPN for remote clients

Use the following procedures to configure a VPN that allows remote clients to connect to computers on a
Main Office internal network
client can be any computer connected to the Internet and running VPN client software that uses IPSec and
manual key exchange. The client must have a static IP address.
Communication between the remote users and the internal network takes place over an encrypted VPN
tunnel that connects the remote user to the DFL-500 VPN gateway across the Internet. Once connected to
the VPN, the remote user's computer appears as if it is installed on the internal network.
Manual key exchange VPNs do not support VPN clients with dynamic IP addresses.
The VPN client PC must have industry standard VPN client software installed. DFL-500 VPN is based on the
industry standard IPSec implementation of VPN making it interoperable with other IPSec VPN products (see
Compatibility with third-party VPN

Configuring the VPN tunnel

You can either create multiple VPN tunnels, one for each VPN client, or you can create one VPN tunnel with a
remote gateway address set to 0.0.0.0. This VPN tunnel accepts connections from any Internet address.
You must create complementary VPN tunnels on the VPN gateway and the clients. On both, the tunnel must
have the same name, keylife, and authentication key.
Complete the following procedure on the DFL-500 VPN gateway.
Go to VPN > IPSEC > Manual Key .
Click New to add a new manual key VPN tunnel.
Configure the VPN tunnel as described in
In the Remote Gateway field, enter the external IP address of the VPN client.
For the example network shown in
would use 2.2.2.2 as the remote gateway. To accept connections from more than one client, set the
Remote Gateway address to 0.0.0.0.
Click OK to save the manual key VPN tunnel.

Adding internal and external addresses

Use the procedure
Adding internal and external addresses
used by the VPN policy.
Adding an IPSec VPN policy
Use the procedure
Adding an IPSec VPN policy
the internal network and the destination address of the VPN client with the VPN tunnel created for the VPN
client.
DFL-500 User's Manual
to configure the outgoing policy that connects from the local
(Example VPN between an internal network and remote
products). D-Link recommends SafeNet/Soft-PK from IRE, Inc.
Configuring the VPN
Example VPN between an internal network and remote
to add a VPN policy that associates the source address of
tunnel.
to configure the internal and external addresses
clients). A remote VPN
clients, you
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